Comments on: Copycat http://techiteasy.org/2007/08/20/copycat/ web business models, information systems, high tech, software economics, SaaS, Software + Service, innovation, new product development, digital strategy, software engineering, remote / mobile / wireless technologies, VoIP, IPTV, blogs, telecommunication business models, computer networks architecture, project management, user-generated content philosophy, entrepreneurial finance, outsourcing, operations - logistics - e-procurement - supply chain management, customer relationship management, telecom billing, clusters of innovation, e-Business, e-Commerce, start-up launch, fast-growing ventures management, globalization + some useless stuff (usually getting the most visits & comments) Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:24:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Vincent van Wylick http://techiteasy.org/2007/08/20/copycat/#comment-36610 Vincent van Wylick Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:01:02 +0000 http://techiteasy.org/2007/08/20/copycat/#comment-36610 As Picasso said: Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal. I think that pretty much says it all. I think that stealing / copying is a practice that very easily happens in areas where it is still hard to measure the value: Art, basic R&D (there was an article on "exploitation" in the latest HBR, a nice way of saying stealing), start-ups, and web2.0. What can you do about it? Tie it into a value-chain pretty much. Make an idea be worth nothing with the added value of the creator or the organisation around it. Whatever you do, don't start converting "art" into business before it is ready for it. That usually tends to ruin the artistic / creative / fun part of it. (Good idea on the tweets, btw.) As Picasso said: Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal. I think that pretty much says it all. I think that stealing / copying is a practice that very easily happens in areas where it is still hard to measure the value: Art, basic R&D (there was an article on “exploitation” in the latest HBR, a nice way of saying stealing), start-ups, and web2.0.

What can you do about it? Tie it into a value-chain pretty much. Make an idea be worth nothing with the added value of the creator or the organisation around it. Whatever you do, don’t start converting “art” into business before it is ready for it. That usually tends to ruin the artistic / creative / fun part of it.

(Good idea on the tweets, btw.)

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